Zone 2 / Area B Strategic Planning Follow Up

December 14th, 2011Please take a lunch.

Objectives for Today• Review zone vision• Review and revise existing goals• Review/discuss zone-specific goals(goal 10)• Next steps

Zone Vision Draft• Draft of zone vision: http://tinyurl.com/6mtn7ur • Word bank from Dec. 9: http://tinyurl.com/7pxlhgq

Initial Thoughts?

FeedbackZone Structure

• Collaboration• Zone community marketing• Ease transitions• Increase enrollment• Easier to implement change, understand differences

between/within schools• Systematic alignment of curriculum and assessments• Collegiality among leaders• Community synergy potential (parents and other partnerships)• Pathways for families, keep kids closer to home, busing & savings

Feedback Cambridge Synthesis of Strengths &Needs• Area needs to back up buildings with money to support staff and pd• Need for exemplars, coaching and pd on differentiation, data

analysis and learning targets• Commonality of pd and implementation • Time needed to learn student needs, assist teachers in working

efficiently as a group to meet student needs.• Use structures in place• Specific data pd. What data is important to use? How to

implement, follow up and evaluate implementation? What do data teams look like?

FeedbackArea Parent Meeting

• Remember to listen to the voice of all parents• Schools and the Area need to drive the conversation• Clear consistent communication from school to school

with clear expectations for everyone (teachers, principals, data, and student experiences/needs/interventions)

• Vertical and consistent alignment of communication/curriculum/transitions

FeedbackResults MPS Data

• Data doesn’t show the whole picture• Data impacts marketing• Need for more data and specific information on variables

that were addressed• More clarity on value added and how to talk about the

data• ACT score discrepancy between H.S.’s and variable of who

takes test

Next StepsJanuary• 16th Draft Due• 19th Principals (GoToMeeting)• 23rd Brief Associate Sups and Chief Academic Officer– Area plans (commonalties, missed, coherence building)

• 29th Area B Parent Meeting (with principals?)• 31st Present Plan to CEO